West Coast - Pahrump - California - Nevada Fireworks Fans : Request for help!

We’ve been working on extending the dates + rules for Shooter’s Sites in Nye County, Nevada and need your help!

We’re working to have more shooting dates year-round and host open shoots (regardless of whose 1.4g product it is!). Right now, we can only have shoots during the week up to the 4th of July.

To succeed we need any and all of you to write and or email the Nye County County Commissioners in support of our efforts.

We are on the agenda for 10/21 and they’ll likely put us on public hearing sometime in Nov:

http://www.nyecounty.net/archives/40….21.Agenda.pdf

The proposed modification to the fireworks ordinance would allow the local town (Amargosa Valley) to set most of the rules and dates for the shooter’s site. This is a very good thing!

Here are the Commissioners and their contact info:

http://www.nyecounty.net/index.asp?nid=552

IF you write, please be courteous and respectful! Important to the commissioners is commerce and visitors. What carries weight is if you say something like:

“Please support the item listed as 32A on the 10/21/08 agenda, which would allow unincorporated towns in Nye to set rules and dates for consumer fireworks Shooter’s Sites.

I’m from XYZ City/State and this would encourage me to visit Nye County and spend my money there and in Amargosa Valley. Right now, I go to Moapa, New Mexico, etc. but this change would make me visit your county.”

(Best to use your own words!)

Anyway, any help is appreciated. Emails are good but letters are better since spam filters catch a lot of emails. Sending both is best!

Fireworks Sneak Preview: Fierce Fury

Here’s a sneak preview of our newest 500g cake, called the Fierce Fury.

Or, click here to see this video of the Fierce Fury on Youtube.

Londonderry, New Hampshire Fireworks Store Update

We had the pleasure of attending the second hearing on our 7,800 square foot fireworks store by the Planning Board of Londonderry, NH.  Great news is that we have full approval for our construction.  We’ll be open next Spring if everything continues as planned.  Stay tuned!

Florida Fireworks Situation Update

Here’s the recent law changes for fireworks in Florida:

1) A law in 2007 regarding the creation of the Florida Fireworks Task Force (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View%20Statutes&SubMenu=1&App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=fireworks&URL=CH0791/Sec07.HTM) the following:

“(5) Pending completion of the Legislature’s review of the task force’s report and to ensure that fire prevention and safety standards are uniform, a new permanent retail sales facility engaged in sales otherwise permitted under s. 791.07, Florida Statutes, may not be opened in this state after March 8, 2007, unless the permanent retail sales facility has received site-plan approval and construction has begun on or before March 8, 2007… However, if the Legislature enacts legislation to provide for the comprehensive regulation of fire prevention and safety standards for the use of consumer fireworks to replace this subsection on or before July 1, 2008, this subsection does not prohibit opening any such facility, permitting any such temporary facility, or adopting any such ordinance or other law after such legislation is enacted.”

Basically, this says that they are planning to enact legislation this session and every full-line store is on hold. There’s not much for new vendors to do in the state of Florida until something happens with this legislation on or before 7/1/08.

2) State fire guys are trying to take control of the supervision of fireworks (and close the agricultural loophole) in this 2008 session. However, they tried to do the same thing in 2007 and that bill died in committee: (http://static.lobbytools.com/bills/2007/PDF/1662.PDF). Both bills have same sponsor.

3) The Task Force itself (http://consensus.fsu.edu/Fireworks-Task-Force/pdfs/Fireworks_Final.pdf) recommends that a process be created to allow more aerials to be sold but a reduced set of items. This sale of aerials would be mines, missiles, s&s, roman candles, sky rockets, firecrackers and some cakes. Reloadables, chasers, copters will be prohbited. (Whacky!) They also propose a 3 year moratorium on new stores selling full-line.

While TNT was fine with the task force, Phantom dissents, especially on the items. (http://consensus.fsu.edu/Fireworks-Task-Force/pdfs/BJAlan_Letter.pdf). I don’t see the legislation passing as recommended but it’s tough to see how things will go. It’s always easier to stop legislation than to pass new things.